Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. From... more...

This presentation of the diseases of the placenta differs in many ways from the first such treatment in these volumes by the eminent Robert Meyer. It is a deliberate attempt to bring together the practical information which has been gathered about the pathology of this complex organ and to make it available to the practicing pathologist as well as... more...

Denizens of the Cityscape and Other Vengeful VersesAre they stories? Are they poems? Once you start reading, it won't really matter. From the secrets of “The Village Pond” and the “The Old Stone Mill,” to the strange encounters with “The Vine” and “The Jigsaw Puzzle,” to the cast of doomsday characters... more...

Epiphanies and revelations…. Each of the ten stories contained in this strangely wondrous collection explore the oftentimes mysterious, sometimes miraculous, nature of belief. From cobwebbed basements to desert wastelands, these stories offer up a host of dark landscapes where outside forces intrude upon our daily lives and manifest opportunities... more...

Dark Demons: Tales of Obsession, Possession, and Unnatural Desire They are the places we refuse to visit, but can't help but feel drawn there. They are the thoughts we avoid thinking, but in the end they take over our minds. They are the desires that unknowingly burrow into our hearts and infect the rest of our lives. They are the demons found in Dark... more...

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy?which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had... more...

What?s left from the new economy? This book takes an unfashionable perspective and shows that despite all the mistaken ideas and exaggerations, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today. Economic history shows that technological revolutions tend to generate deep economic and social crises before a temporary state of... more...

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . . It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron... more...

The development of large-scale integrated systems on a chip has had a dramatic effect on circuit design methodology. Recent years have seen an escalation of interest in systems level integration (system-on-a-chip) and the development of low power, high chip density circuits and systems. Kurt Hoffmann sets out to address a wide range of issues relating... more...